Tenebrae Service
Holy Tuesday
You are welcome to attend our 8 pm Tenebrae Service.
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Out of the depths, I cry to You, O lord
Readings
Hymns
LH 61 Alas and did my Saviour bleed
1 Alas! and did my Saviour bleed, And did my sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred head For such a worm as I?
2 Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity, grace unknown, And love beyond degree!
3 Well might the sun in darkness hide, And shut his glories in, When God, the mighty Maker, died For man, the creature’s sin.
4 Thus might I hide my blushing face While His dear cross appears, Dissolve my heart in thankfulness, And melt mine eyes to tears.
5 But drops of grief can ne’er repay The debt of love I owe: Here, Lord, I give myself away; 'Tis all that I can do.
Isaac Watts (1674-1748), alt.
LH 52 v. 1,6,8 A Sacred head
1 O sacred head, now wounded, With pain and scorn weighed down, In mockery surrounded, With thorns Thine only crown: O sacred head, what glory, What bliss, till now, was Thine! Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call Thee mine.
6 Thanks from my heart I offer, O Jesus, dearest friend, For all that Thou didst suffer, Thy pity without end. O grant that I may ever To Thy truth faithful be; When soul and body sever May I be found in Thee.
8 Be Thou my consolation, My shield, when I must die; Remind me of Thy passion When my last hour draws nigh. Mine eyes shall then behold Thee, Upon Thy cross shall dwell, My heart by faith enfold Thee; Who dieth thus, dies well.
O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden; Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676); Based on Salve caput cruentatum, asc. Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153); Tr. based on James Waddell Alexander, 1849 and John Kelly, 1867